How to run distributed performance tests in Kubernetes with K6

Javier Ramos
ITNEXT
Published in
11 min readJan 9, 2023

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If you love writing high performant code and also love the power of Kubernetes, I think you are going to find interesting this article where I will explore K6, an open source easy-to-use load testing framework which has the best support for Kubernetes. In this article, I will show you how to perform load testing natively on a Kubernetes cluster using multiple pods simulating real world traffic to test a ElasticSearch cluster deployed using the ECK Operator.

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